Doe Quotes - Page 83

LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.

Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

Oh sure, its fine when a monkey does it. But when I throw barrels at an Italian plumber, they call it a hate crime!

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.

The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture... “If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.

I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.